2004 Staff Highlights
Yongsheng Chen, John Fulton, John Linehan, and Tom Autry, Fundamental Science Directorate, have been recognized with the American Chemical Society's Glenn Award for their presentation and paper delivered at the 228th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (August 2004). The prestigious award is given by ACS's Division of Fuel Chemistry. The paper, "In-Situ Spectroscopic Studies of Rhodium Catalyzed Production of Hydrogen from Dimethylamine Borane. Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Catalysis?" was honored as best among 220 papers submitted for the national meeting. Criteria for the award includes: quality of presentation, quality of preprint, and innovativeness of research. The award was presented to the recipients during the National ACS meeting in Washington, D.C.
Scott Chambers, PNNL Laboratory Fellow and EMSL User, is the 2004 recipient of the E.W. Mueller award for outstanding research in surface science. He was recognized for advancing the science of molecular beam epitaxy, and applying it to fundamental investigations of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of metal oxide films, surfaces, and interfaces.
Scott Chambers, Don Baer, Chuck Peden, Mike Henderson, Greg Exarhos, and Bruce Kay, Fundamental Science Directorate, are Fellows of the American Vacuum Society, the Science and Technology Society. Bruce Kay is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of the British Vacuum Society Award.
Stephanie Sawhill, graduate of Western Washington University, was selected to receive the 2004-05 Distinguished Masters' Thesis Award from the Western Association of Graduate Schools. The award is given for the outstanding M.S. thesis in 13 western states and 3 western Canadian provinces. Sawhill carried out extensive research at EMSL in support of her thesis "Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation of Transition Metal Phosphide Hydrodesulfurization Catalysts."
